Cabanilles: Complete Vocal Music: Mortales que Amáis

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[the choir's] sound is full-throated, fresh and well focused. — MusicWeb International, 15th May 2014 More…

Release Date: 24th Feb 2014
Catalogue No: 94781
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

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Cabanilles: Beatus vir

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: Mass

Work length19:44

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Kyrie

Track length3:05

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Gloria

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Credo

Track length8:37

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Sanctus

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Cabanilles: Magnificat

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: Mortales que amais a un Dios inmortal

Work length12:49

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: Ah! De la region celeste

Work length15:44

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: El galan que ronda las calles a 2

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Elia Casanova, Lucia Martin
Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: Atiende a mis suspiros

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: Arroyuelo no huyas

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: Son las fieras

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

Cabanilles: Mi esposo asesta sus flechas a 11

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Amystis
Jose Duce Chenoll

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Hailed in his time as Spain's greatest living composer, Joan Baptista Cabanilles is today considered by many to be the greatest of all Spanish Baroque composers, one whose wealth of ideas, mastery of counterpoint and command of form represent the climax of the Iberian tradition of organ music that stretched as far back as Cabezón. That Cabanilles was held in high esteem by his contemporaries is shown by his music's wide distribution in manuscripts. Though the vast majority is for keyboard, there do exist some 10 sacred choral works -- precious remnants of what must have been a much larger repertory, probably conceived for the cathedral of Valencia in which the composer spent most of his working life.

All of the works are assembled on this charming release, recorded by the chamber choir and musicological society Amystis, and a significant addition the Spanish Baroque discography that follows the completion of the critical edition by José Duce Chenoll of Cabanilles' entire vocal music output. Chenoll, who directs and provides the intonation, postulates in the liner notes that not all of the compositions -- which include a Mass and Magnificat as well as works honouring the Blessed Sacrament -- were performed in Cabanilles' lifetime, given that many are written on sketch paper (and possibly, too, in the composer's hand), but this should not detract from their masterful quality. Revealing the composer's great expertise in the use of musical rhetoric as well as his concern regarding varied rhythmic and harmonic effects, they are performed with aplomb by an ensemble that have made it their special task to research and promote, always via novel means, unpublished repertoire from the late 16th to early 18th centuries.

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15th May 2014

[the choir's] sound is full-throated, fresh and well focused.

13th April 2014

[Cabanilles] is known to musical history for his feisty organ music. But the quite recent discovery of a body of vocal music is fascinating...There are some quirky harmonies...and lively rhythms from the chamber choir Amystis under conductor José Duce Chenoll. One over-intense soprano and a too prominent organ continuo, but fervently committed readings.

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Cabanilles: Complete Vocal Music

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